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Community Derived User Preferences

Publishing Venue

IBM

Abstract

The system described in this article enables default preferences to be derived transparently by a community of users, such that a new user of a given application will be presented with a configuration with a higher degree of optimization to them, than would be possible with fixed defaults.

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Undisclosed

Language

English (United States)

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Community Derived User Preferences

Applications, even simple ones, generally have an array of user options and
preferences. These are usually to control the functional and presentation aspects of
the application. They are used in order that a user can customize the system to best
fit their needs. A user typically explores the options as they become familiar with the
application and after being exposed to it for a long enough period of time will arrive
at some optimal configuration for their needs.

Additionally, a user may find that different configurations of the same
application are appropriate for different uses of that application. Some systems even
provide (to some extent) for this. For example, products such as Studio Application
Developer, provide different 'perspectives' which alter the visual presentation
depending upon the type of development the user is undertaking.

As users want to get up and running as soon as possible with a new
application a default configuration is usually supplied. The application developers
arrive at this default configuration and as such it is unlikely to suit any specific user.

The system described herein enables default preferences to be derived
transparently by a community of users, such that a new user of a given application
will be presented with a configuration with a higher degree of optimization to them,
than would be possible with fixed defaults.

The system records the preferences and settings that individual users define
and recognizes that users of an application may belong to different communities
based on their use of the application. This will allow a set of favourite user
preferences and settings to be derived for a particular use of the application.

A user starting an application (or beginning to utilize the application for a new
use) for the first time would be presented with a set of preferences and settings that
the community had decided were the most appropriate for that use. This would
provide the user...